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hunting for washing machines and we are from ukraine and insure our machines online at hotline-finance hotline finance insurance of course online glory to ukraine is a program verdict my name is serhiy rudenko everyone good day and good health today is the 154th day of heroic ukrainian resistance to the russian occupation of the defense forces of the south reported the partial destruction last night of the antonov bridge across the dnipro in kherson, through which the occupiers are transporting equipment to the kherson region. and in the return direction to crimea, russian private the wagner military company probably managed to carry out a tactical offensive in donbas in the area of ​​the

uglegir thermal power plant and the neighboring village of novoluhanske, the russians also continue to shell kharkiv, chuguiv and other settlements in the region, again the occupiers struck mykolaiv oblast and dnipropetrovsk oblast, today there was an air alert almost throughout ukraine due to the departure of e e planes from belarus, russian e planes well, meanwhile, the occupiers continue to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine , 200 russian soldiers were killed in the past day, in addition the armed forces destroyed 12 enemy armored vehicles, helicopters and three artillery systems. at the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost more than 40,000 people in ukraine, 1,738 tanks, 3,971 combat vehicles, 880,80,883 artillery systems, 258 rocket

launchers, 117 air defense systems, 222 aircraft, 190 helicopters, 2,847 vehicles. 15 ships, boats, 167 cruise missiles, 726 drones, 75 units of special equipment, about the ukrainian counteroffensive in the kherson region, the situation in the eastern and northern borders and fronts, respectively, of ukraine, we are talking today with my guest, this is oleksandr musienko , director of the center for military-political studies, oleksandr good day, good health, thank you for joining our broadcast. i hope that after our victory, there will be political military and legal studies. so, this night, mr. oleksandr, the armed forces of ukraine delivered

new blows to the antoniv bridge in the kherson region it was blocked by russian collaborators. mausa acknowledged the shelling of the antonov bridge, but says that it is still standing. those who were near this bridge are still standing. this is how they comment on the situation with the antonov bridge. let's hear the traffic on the bridge. uh, just like that, with the hammers, we are once again declaring something: ukrainian nationalists, american specialists, i will tell you once again that uh, the attack, uh, on the antonovsky bridge does not make any decisions, do not decide. exit войны это is simply another political application. it was a collaborator of stremeus. well, he forgot to add that this is the bridge over which they could escape from kherson, but they

didn't say that. so, oleksandr, let's start with the kherson boiler because it looks like that the russian occupiers fall into this cauldron and about the offensive of the ukrainian army in the south, because further development both on the eastern and theoretically on the northern fronts of ukraine will depend on this offensive, well, it must be said and noted really high evaluations of our defenders ukrainian defense forces which artillery units and those units that carry out adjustment of fire aiming fire at the target that they did a brilliant job as we can see the strikes being carried out specifically on the antonov bridge the nature of those destructions that are already in free access and everyone can get acquainted with them and see, it shows that blows are applied extremely clearly and precisely exactly on the structure of the bridge, exactly

on the web of the bridge, they bring it out of a condition where it is possible to drive on it and move heavy equipment it is obvious, and in this way, it is one of the elements of the counteroffensive and pressure on the russian occupying forces. the second element is that the ukrainian defenders hit warehouses with shells and command posts in the same filigree manner. by the way, i want to remind you that one from the command posts of the russian forces. it was located on the left bank of the kherson region, right near the er antoniv bridge, it was also recently destroyed, it was hit, this is also a very important aspect, just as big the detonation took place in warehouses with ammunition in nova kakhovka, and there was also destroyed a large number of apparently shells that were there, judging by the fact that how long the fire and detonation

took place. i would also like to highlight, in addition to the destruction of ammunition warehouses, a very important aspect, which is the destruction by high-precision strikes of means air defense of the russian forces, for example, literally the previous week under the azure, one of the newest e-e radar radar stations patriot was destroyed in the kherson region also, in addition, the s300 complexes and other air defense complexes have been destroyed, which opens up opportunities for greater work of ukrainian attack aircraft there and, in addition, more opportunities for the work of ukrainian armor and drones, and in this way, now it seems to me that a pretty good strategy is emerging. in what sense, in the sense the fact that heimers or m270 systems are actively used has already become obvious that the air defense system

that is in service in russia cannot act there konashenko to the representative of the staff the ministry of defense of russia, no matter how he says that they intercepted 10 rocket-cameras 112, in fact, this is not true, and the antonov bridge is, let's say, which is covered by the systems of drinking russia, on this testimony, there is a vivid uh-uh, that's why they don't do anything to get just this jet artillery we can't answer with fire, because death or hurricanes don't have such a range to get hymers, skymers move like phantoms , in fact, along the front line, and this helps quite significantly, the combination to this can be added important aspect of the large number of non-loyal population to the russian occupiers in the south and in the kherson region and in kherson itself, which we see in coordination with these special operations of ukraine, in fact, the nightmares

of the occupier there, conducting actions to undermine collaborators, e.e., to hinder their activities, conducting ukrainian agitation there etc., all this forms an extremely powerful fire psychological attack, i would call it that because it is quite strong , now it will put pressure on that group of troops that are there, i even admit that the number of dicers and it there are also in the south and in the east. i know this from such, let's say from sources that can be trusted, it will increase accordingly, morale will fall even more, plus to this, add that weapons and help and support will not be able to arrive in time. that is, this is a stage that also involves squeezing the enemy that all this in the complex will make the russian troops simply forced to make another voluntary gesture, so under various pretexts they will find an excuse for this and most likely move to the left

bank of the kherson region and already strengthen their positions there by the way, from the information that comes in every hour, every minute, we also know that the non -armed forces of ukraine also hit the railway bridge over the dnipro river, which is also located next to the antoniv bridge, the so-called head of the kherson regional administration volodymyr saldo said this and it was this railway track that the russians used to deliver heavy equipment to kherson. well, and accordingly, they did everything to prepare a bridgehead for the further escape. in addition, it is known that the ukrainian military have already liberated the villages of andriivka and lozove, located on the left bank of the ingulets river in the kherson region, this was reported by the operational command of the south of our aviation at night, strikes

were made against the enemy with the use of attack aircraft, bombers and helicopters, four enemy strongholds were hit in the area of ​​andriivka , biloghirka and blagodatny at the same time with information also appeared today that major general dmytro marchenko, who until april was in charge of the defense of mykolaiv , returned to the city again, vitaliy stated this who remembers that it was dmytro marchenko who once said that the crimean bridge was not the main goal of ukraine after the acquisition of new western weapons, but in the context of what happened with the antonov bridge and the railway bridge that is located next to this antonov bridge, mr. oleksandr, or it is possible that something will happen so that the antoniv bridge will become a rehearsal for the kerch bridge well, uh, i think

so, because we can roughly imagine what if the ukrainian defense forces now had hymax systems that can uh shoot long-range ballistic missiles at a range of 300 km, obviously, uh, i think that, let's say, such a fate could also befall the kerch bridge, by the way, it should be said that literally in a few weeks, russia actively sent russian troops there to protect them, they deployed additional means of air defense there even the s400 is there on combat duty, that is, despite the fact that they, uh, declare and carry yet another lie and lie about the fact that supposedly ukrainian systems are ineffective , high-markers are ineffective and that they are destroying this intercepted. they fortified the kerch bridge , which is all because there really was such a serious

commotion, because of the presence of weapons, of course, i think that it would be quite possible. meanwhile, russia is preparing a so-called referendum on the occupied parts of ukraine and the southern parts of the zaporizhzhia region in the kherson region, etc. this is actually a big problem for the russians themselves, because it is clear that the situation in the kherson region is completely different than it was during the annexation of crimea in 2014 and even completely different than it was in the occupied areas donetsk and luhansk regions because the occupiers are not perceived and it is unlikely that there will be such a mass turnout for this pseudo-referendum, but the united states has already promised that unlike the situation in 2014 with russia's seizure of crimea and

its attempted annexation, they will now act quickly and it is strictly necessary to annex part of southern ukraine. russia was warned about this in the american embassy in kyiv, and american intelligence believes that the recent statements of the minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation, sergei lavrov, about the expansion uh, geography, uh, this statement actually talks about the possible annexation of the kherson region and part of the zaporozhye region, in what way can the united states of america act quickly and strictly if russia plans such a referendum, for example, in september, if of course they stay in the kherson region well, i think so the most important question is whether they are received because i assume most likely not a-at least if we are talking in the time frame until september, then we

can talk precisely about the right bank part of kherson oblast from the left, be careful and there it will be possible the situation is a bit more complicated. but there are also these chances of ukrainian forces to liberate these occupied territories , but what is interesting is that the configuration for them is being made. it is clear that they would obviously like to hold such a referendum and ask such questions, although pay attention, you are quite correct in your question, you placed the emphasis, noting about the fact that a large number is precisely the population that does not perceive the occupiers, and this, by the way, is quite serious because it constantly influenced the fact that the russians changed their plans they talked about the fact that there might be a referendum like the one in donetsk or luhansk when they created these pseudo unrecognized so-called formations of the dpr and lpr. then they started

talking about the possibility of a taurian federation and maybe these territories annex to crimea and fix some kind of administrative and territorial status there. then annexation began to sound again, and then in a different way, that is, the configuration was constantly changing, and this is precisely because of the resistance of the local population, people who are waiting when they will be freed from this er criminal frenzied occupation and they were constantly forced to er decide there to correct it now, in what sense is the situation now ? referendums will be held in the donetsk region about joining russia, most likely, that is, russia will probably want to annex there, and the same should happen in the south, but now all these plans

are being destroyed, first of all, by the effective resistance of the ukrainian defenders in the east, where, despite the fact that russian troops are approaching, they are not able to capture hannibahmut, ani sloviansk, or kramatorsk, that is, a large part of the donetsk region remains under the control of ukrainian forces, regardless of the second - this is now these actions in the southern direction in the kherson region, that is, it is obvious that gradually approaching the ukrainian forces, which have already forced the ingulets river and established themselves on its left bank , which is also important from the point of view of continuing further offensive actions, and here are these strikes that are taking place and all this in the complex, she is playing to create obstacles in general, so that there is a referendum even after, or rather, give a pseudo referendum, these actions are unrecognized, they, uh, took place there at all, but how can the united states prevent this and help as they have already this was done on the

example of the hyps systems. i think that the best way to help prevent this is to provide an even greater number of additional rsv systems, ammunition to them, other types of weapons as well. by the way, what else could help and speed it up the solution to the issue of aviation, for example, the statements made recently by the minister of defense of slovakia, yaroslav nagy, that they are ready to transfer in return if they are provided with f-16 aircraft, most likely in addition to the conversations that are ongoing now in the west about the fact that ukraine needs to be strengthened planes, it is clear that there are two stages here. the first stage is more short-term. when can we be provided with those types of soviet weapons that will remain, for example mig -29 aircraft, and if we are talking about offensive actions on the ground, it is very important between assault aircraft, aircraft su-25, which are still available, and in principle, our experts

said that they can be equipped with british brimstone missiles, which we also already have, and this will give us the opportunity to destroy positions on the ground. this would be a very significant support. by western f-16 a 10 aircraft, but it is certainly not within the time frame until september, after all, they proved the framework exactly. this is the algorithm against the background of what is happening in the south of ukraine. russia is beginning to change its tactics in the world because we see how sergey lavrov went on a tour of africa, there is a planned summit russia africa he has already visited mozambique he has already been to the congo and everywhere i understand that lavrov is trying to win the support of african countries against the background of the projected food shortage against the background of the fact that part of the

african countries there will be non-transfers after, in the event that ukrainian grain does not reach the world market by how much africa, from the point of view of support in the world, is important for russia and for ukraine because uh, we understand that uh, the vector of external the policy of the russian federation has shifted to iran, syria, china, north korea, hmm, india, partly, and now africa. to what extent can these countries become partners or at least some kind of allies of russia in these shootings ? russia's desperate struggle with the so-called collective event, you know, we really saw the importance of the african continent, it has obviously become closer

to us, after all . exported countries starting from north africa, central, well, such as egypt, for example, and a country like djibouti, somalia, eritrea, another, that is, uh, in principle, and it began to concern us, that is, the issue of the food crisis, it became clear, and russia quite actively began to use its methods , in fact, of this terrorist organization, which is now at the head of er russia er and it is headed by putin. they started to use the methods of actually terrorists blackmailing the world of the un and africa in that they say it is not that they are conducting a full-scale aggression and they started an aggressive war against ukraine,

the black sea is obstructed and blocked, it is not this that is obstructing the export of grain, but actually western sanctions, and now lavrov, by the way, is constantly in all his statements and interviews, starting with the egyptian one, from egypt, where did he go, and now his tour continues he is constantly playing this record, saying that it is you in defense; moreover, i want to remind you that i did not completely understand the position of the african union of african states when such a position began to be heard, especially from the current head of this organization of the president of senegal when he started talking about the fact that he went to russia, uh, in particular, where in moscow, and started talking about the fact that, well, we need to find some way to agree so that the grain goes to an agreement with russia. it is possible even to partially cancel the sanctions on the position because i would suggest to the african union that such states as

egypt, which have their own fleet, may be offered that they are ready to become states that guarantee , including the safety of the transportation of this grain, and to become guarantors of this safety for in order to protect trade routes and not try to negotiate with russia, and it would be understandable and fair because the grain goes to them, but we also see what we learned from this lesson. i mean, we, the ukrainian authorities, most likely learned lesson well, in principle, this is useful for all of us ukrainians, because the position of special representative for african affairs appeared, because it turned out , let's admit and say frankly that this area was obviously underdeveloped in our country. africa is gaining more and more importance, it is necessary to carry out active work, it is necessary to cooperate there in order

to prevent russia and china from capturing, say, the bridgeheads there and you and using the african continent for their narrow political goals and ambitions for blackmailing the institution, in particular, friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel as well as on our social media platforms on youtube and facebook. if you are currently watching us on youtube or facebook, please like this video, you can leave questions to mr. oleksandr in the comments well, of course, subscribe to our e social networks on youtube on facebook telegram instagram instagram twitter we are everywhere and read our news on the website espresso tv e regarding grain mr. oleksandr, this topic is the main one during the last week, we know that july 22 took place the signing of e-e agreements of several e-e agreements ukraine signed with turkey and from the organization of the

united nations separately, russia separately e-e and information has already appeared that the first ship with ukrainian grain can leave e-e black sea ports already this week, reuters reports with reference to a high-ranking turkish official who noted that it will probably happen hm, it will happen a few days after the start of the coordination center for grain exports in istanbul, which opens today on wednesday. he added that all the details have been worked out in the including a safe route for ships that will not require demining , there is also information that on the fifth of august, the president of turkey erdağan will go to putin in sochi , and how do you predict or follow russia has at least one agreement recently in

the format of ukraine, russia and the third party here now or the fourth party, the third, fourth party is the un and turkey, because it seems that this path, which russia is talking about, that we will provide security on this path, we will do everything to make it safe on this path, this is one of the elements , again, of russia's blackmail of the world, because literally on the second day after the conclusion of these grain agreements, the so -called grain agreements, there was an attack on the odesa sea port, is russia for i don't say to the world. now ukraine is a reliable partner in this agreement. well, of course, there is no need to say that there is some kind of trust. i think it's obvious that it

is not even among those, let's say, you know, among those who in europe, in particular, talked about the fact that maybe it is necessary in a different way it is possible to behave in a certain way , and so on, after all, russia has destroyed any arguments with this very war. i want to remind you even recently of the statement of the former us secretary of state, kissinger, who stated that it is impossible to negotiate with russia at a price territorial concessions and the return of ukrainian territories, there was also a transformation of the position, because i want to remind you why i drew attention to this, because he is a pankissinger. after all, he cooperated for many years, visited russia, and then i was always glad to meet him, and such a transformation of the position from such people, too eloquent and says that there is trust even in those who used to constantly articulate that one should try to somehow understand the kremlin and listen to some of their

crazy, unsubstantiated arguments positions of trust, of course, there is no question of the fact that today russia wanted to use this very blackmail in order to blame ukraine in the future and talk about the fact that ukraine is independently trying to block the export of grain, which should be in african countries, provoking such in this way, the famine , etc. bombings. by the way, which they continue in a series there, it did not stop and peaceful people are dying, they provoked a huge migration in europe in order to once again split the unity in the european union and thus also try to

win certain positions for themselves. of course, in this sense you can't trust but what really happened now here is the united states i liked the statement of the americans about what they said so we will prepare a plan b in order to guarantee the export a what can be plan b well of course it is no disagreements plan b can be that it will concern the provision of additional anti-ship missiles and air defense systems to ukraine, this is something that can protect and give guarantees that the ports can be protected and trade shipping lanes can be guaranteed, and russia will strike odesa on the second day port, which they recognized and did not hide it, and everyone understood that russia was behind it, simply once again proved for a long time that it uses aggressive terrorist methods and with them to date introduce some there is

no need to have a constructive conversation about some kind of even imaginary diplomatic negotiations, if everything is more or less clear with grain, that is, there is an agreement, and russia promises to fulfill this agreement in the event that ukraine will fulfill it . everything was simple and clear, at least until the last days, until gazprom began to reduce the volume of gas supplies in the northern stream, but literally today it is up to 33 million cubic meters per day or up to 20% of the capacity and in in principle, the russians are already starting to blackmail europe even before the onset of cold weather and the period when the consumption of russian gas in europe increases many times